THE LAST OF US SEASON 2

By the time you read this, filming will have begun on the second season of The Last of Us, the hit adaptation of the video game’s sequel. Here’s what we know about the new season, which is expected to hit our screens sometime in 2025.

IT’S A SEQUEL

Well, obviously. It’s based on the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II, but the showrunners, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, have been coy about what’s coming.

“Season 2 will be different, just as season 1 remixed the material a bit from the game. Sometimes it will be different radically, and sometimes it’ll be [barely] different at all. But it’s going to be different and it’ll be its own thing. It won’t be exactly like the game. It’ll be the show Neil and I want to make,” Craig says.

WHAT HAPPENS IN

PART 2 OF THE GAME?

Here’s the game’s synopsis: “Ellie and Joel have settled down in Jackson, Wyoming. Living among a thriving community of survivors has allowed them peace and stability, despite the constant threat of the infected and other, more desperate survivors. When a violent event disrupts that peace, Ellie embarks on a relentless quest to carry out justice and find closure.

THE CAST

Stars PEDRO PASCAL and BELLA RAMSEY will be back as Joel and Ellie, along with several new faces. Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart, No One Will Save You) stars as Abby, “a skilled soldier whose blackand-white view of the world is challenged as she seeks vengeance for those she loved”.

Beef star Young Mazino stars as Jesse, a friend of Ellie’s described as “a pillar of his community who puts everyone else’s needs before his own, sometimes at terrible cost”.

Isabela Merced from Madame Web stars as Dina, Ellie’s love interest and “a free-wheeling spirit whose devotion to Ellie will be tested by the brutality of the world they inhabit”.